Sunrise Foundation to halt all its activities

it's too bad but not surprising after all the negative comments about sunrise here on the forum.

Will the parallax games be lost for ever, or will sunrise pass on the rights to someone else?

Thanks for all the commitment, effort and dedication that you have put in the MSX community over the last decades !
Hopefully someone will/can take over all of the Sunrise designs so they won't be lost forever......

I want to thank sunrise and Rob specifically for his great efforts over the years. Also thanks go to Koen for making much of the hardware technically possible and his assistance in producing the different nowind batches.

We (nowind) want to try to preverse as much of the interlectual property of the sunrise foundation as possible. We have not worked out any kind of deal yet, but the initial response was very positive and I think no one wants anything to be 'lost'. So we will see what the future brings, but I would not write off any software or hardware knowlegde yet.

This line is not really clear to me. Does this involve the NoWind cartridge or all Sunrise hardware? The fact is that I'm stuck with a broken Moonsound and any attempts to contact Sunrise have been futile until now. I've a replacement, but man I want this dear cartridge to be fixed.

Furthermore I'd like to say that Sunrise has been quite a big player in the MSX scene and released some remarkable stuff. All hail for that. The halt was expected for quite some years. RIP Sunrise.

The descision of sunrise is of great honor. Instead of leaving the people to wonder if anything is ever going to happen they realised they could no longer server the community in a proper way. Instead of leaving the people behind with false hope they made the point clear. Pasing over the rights and blueprints to a new team shows that sunrise truly deserves great respect. Despite of having a hard time and reading the negative reviews on the forum they have chosen to act in great respect. A great foundation that has served many and even ended in the best way possible, sunrise surely sets a great example of how one should act as a foundation. Good job!

Despite the issues from the past couple of years of with the distribution of some products, I'll still remember Sunrise for the many more years of excellent service that came before that.
At fairs, Sunrise usually was one of the first booths I visited, to check which new awesome games they had published that time, especially with the Games Subscription they had at the time. The excellent memory that Rob had by not just remembering my name, but even my address, still amazes me. Replacjng faulty disks, or patching them, or giving a new disk/catridge label was never an issue either.

So, thanks for the years of MSX service, and here's hoping that the broad library of software and hardware documentation can find its way to the public (domain) through MSX.org and/or other websites, as a testament to the Sunrise that once was.

Exactly.

Well, I most often had only bad experiences with Sunrise: not answering emails, very slow, and now this mess with the Nowind (and I don't expect to ever receive the cartridges ordered more than a year ago). So yes, they did bring some great products for the MSX, but should hardly be elevated to any saint status.

edit: And big thanks to Sky_Hawk for his help.

When Sunrise was formed, in 1992 during the msx-scene bloom, it was a solid team. I was there, right at the birth of Sunrise. But people like Stefan and Rob carried the spirit on for many years after. Rob was one of the last Mohicans, with him exiting the foundation had faded. Respect to Rob and all others connected to the Sunrise foundation.

Thank you, Sunrise. Thank you Rob. cheers on you.

I can remember the time That sunrise was formed I was also there at That meeting , it was in Elkerlyck in alphen aan den Rijn,
Some people wherent verry happy with it I can remember

A big thank you to sunrise! Thank you Rob!

DrWh0, as was mentioned earlier in the thread, this has yet to be worked out..., so these question cannot be answered yet.

Marq: Give it a rest.

At least don’t aim your anger at other users who are not Sunrise.

As I see it, the praise Sunrise deserve for all the good things they undeniably have done for the MSX computer and scene can perfectly coexist with the comments about delivery and communication issues that gradually increased over the last few years.

I think everybody agrees there were no bad intentions in play, but that customers like Marq who have paid 300 euro's long time ago and still have not received anything have all the right in the world to voice their worries and dissatisfaction - especially when their attempts to contact Sunrise went unanswered.

One could argue that it would probably have been better if Sunrise had acknowledged the problem sooner and had called for help, passing the torch to potential new enthusiasts. But making such a step is usually a lot easier said than done, and lack of time is indeed something that can come and go unexpectedly, generally taking a lot more time than you anticipate initially.

That said, they had a good run and without them the MSX community would indeed not have been the same. Thanks to everyone who once played a role in Sunrise. I bow to you.

That's guys:
http://www.msx.org/photoshoots/zandvoort-1995/zandvoort-1995...

Kudos!
The hardware department of (ex-)Sunrise still works, and quite well I might say.
My broken Moonsound did a round-trip to be repared in just a few weeks to come home alive and kickin'